Saturday, February 16, 2019

Astropictures DeepSky Objects


The idea was to photograph comet C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto but I could trace the comet at all. Probably due to the Moon (81%) which was outshining the comet and the fact the comet is already very faint.
So I decided to talk some pictures of some Deep Sky object. They are not perfect due to the Moon. Pictures are taken with TAL200K f/8.5 and Nikon D7500. No darks were taken and pictures are stacked with DeepSkyStacker (format DNG). CS4 was used for final editing.


Observation list

- Messier M46 : Open Star Cluster with Planetary Nebula NGC 2438
- Messier M48 : Open Star Cluster
- Messier M81 : Galaxy
- Messier M65 and M66 : Galaxy
- Messier M67 : Open Star Cluster
- NGC 1545: Open Star Cluster
- Messier M42 :Orion Nebula
- NGC 2903 : Galaxy
- NGC 3115 : Galaxy, with a black hole of 2 billion Sunmasses!